Jerry James Haumberger wrote: > > The question remains: How can I back up -- with tar or > any other Slackware 3.5 program -- my 9 MBs of files from > the BasicLinux console with multiple floppies? And in > compressed format?
It would be possible to create a compressed archive and then split it into floppy-sized chunks. Like this: ------------------------------------------- tar -zcvf - /usr | split - -C 1440k floppy. ------------------------------------------- This will give you floppy.aa, floppy.ab, floppy.ac, etc. You could write a script around that to copy the files (for i in floppy.*) to floppies (prompt, mount, copy, umount). To reverse the process, use cat instead of split. Cheers, Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
